Stool.



Patented Mar. I2, |90I. J. Il. PURDUM.

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AWOHNEYS NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. PURDUM, O F BATAVIA, ILLINOIS.

STOOL.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,855, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed .Tilly 7, 1900.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. PURDUM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Batavia, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Stool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a stool for use in boot and shoe stores and comprising a seat for the salesman and a rest for the foot of the person on whom the shoe is being itted.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the invention in one adjustment. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the device in a second adjustment, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the invention.

The stool has a seat a for the salesman, which seat has a plurality of legs b, here shown as constructed of rods of iron bent into the requisite form. Extending out from the front side of the seat ot and projecting forwardly and downwardly are two side bars c, which terminate in a foot d, resting on the floor. These side bars c may, if desired, be formed of rods of iron in continuation of the rods forming the legs b of the seat a. This, however, is not an essential construction.

A foot-rest e is secured rigidly to the lower parts of the side bars c, it being provided with a cleat e' at its lower end to be engaged by the heel of the shoe when rested thereon. The foot-rest extends approximately one-half the distance from the foot d to the seat ot, and the remaining part is occupied by the base portion fof the ankle-rest. The base portionf is hinged to the upper end of the foot-rest e, and, if desired, a strip of carpet (indicated at gin Fig. 1) may be passed over the parts e and f. Two pairs of standards h are mounted on the base f of the ankle-rest, and the members of these pairs of standards are connected with each other by cross-rods, one of which is indicated by the dotted lines t' in Fig. 3. Between these cross-rods t' a section of carpet or other ilexible fabric 7c is passed. When the ankle-rest is thrown to the position shown in Fig. 2-that is to say, with the base f lying down on the foot-rest e--the standards h ex- Serial No. 22,816. (No model.)

tend upward and the fabric 7c is held in position to receive the ankle of the person having the shoe fitted. When the base f of the ankle-rest is thrown into the position shown in Fig. l, the standards h then project downward and the parts c andf form a continuous uninterrupted surface on which the feet of the person may be rested.

Having thus described my invention,' I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A stool, having a seat, legs for sustaining the saine, side bars fastened to the seat and extending outward and downward therefrom and terminating in a foot resting on the floor, a stationary foot-rest mounted on the lower portions of the side bars just above the foot, and an anklerest comprising a base hingedly mounted on the upper edge of the foot-rest and movable down on the sidebars or upward over the top of the foot-rest, and an ankle-rest proper carried on the said base and arranged to stand upward therefrom when said base lies over the top of the footrest, and projecting downward below the side bars when the base of the foot-rest is engaged with the side bars.

2. A stool, having a seat, a side bar or bars projecting outward and downward therefrom a stationary foot-rest fastened to the lower portions of the side bars, and an ankle-rest comprising an ankle-rest proper and a base, the base being hingedly mounted to swing over the top of the foot-rest, or to swing down on the upper portions of the side bars,whereby to throw the ankle-rest into or out of operative position.

8. A stool, having a seat, a side bar projecting outward and downward therefrom, a stationary foot-rest supported on the lower portion of the side bar, and an ankle-rest adjustably mounted at the upper end of the footrest and movable over the foot-rest to operative position, and down on the side bar to inoperative position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. PURDUM.

Witnesses:

E. W. MGCULLOUGH, GEO. FRIEND. 

